Safety-pin.



AVAILABF-E WW G, HOUGHTON.

SAFETY PIN.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 24, 1013 Patented June 9, 1914.

WITNESSES mmmms "on To SAMUEL STERNBERGER,

. sure.

Specification of Letters Patent.

.ii' ajgientedrlune 9, 1914.

nomination filed July 24, 1913. Serial No. 780,501,;

.guaid or shield. of a-safety pin with means for locking the pin point when in operative position, so as to prevent accidental displacement of said point from said guard. "hield the construction and operation of said means being hereinatter set forth 'l invention is satisfactorily illustrated in tn aeeoinpanying drawing, but the 1111 u truinentalitles thereof may he to be uiulerstood that the armnlit11r is; not limited to the speoilio errant ment and organization shown and descrioed.

Figure 1 rega'esents a side elevation oil? a safety pin embodying my invention ntfs a, longitudinal section '05 a poilrig. 3 represents a transverse on line w---:z:, 1-. Fifi. & represents a, plan view of (ltilildlliltl portion.

liniiiar numerals of i'el'erenee indirate espoi'uling parts in the li turos. eferring to the drawin Il designates pin pi'iiipoi oi? a sat'rxy or shield pin point portion the-root, and jhe ll'lflllllyil With which iid lfiin pro 'ier is connected by interin Mote eoil- 4; and which is lixoo' the clamp inei'nher oil? the shield or =3, with which latter the point pm:

of the pin proper enters as ilswa at said parts; separately considered ho- ,ll known. :ae side oi? the point nienlho' at oppoees are the grooves which extend in a dn-eelion thereon parallel w'ui the dates of the shield or guard (l, "lid silo plates lining some out r silient in la,- eral direction 1 said plates are to;

' internal riiions i) which :11

swan edin from said. walls and im 4 tan-2i 'ardly toward each other tron: what e termed the bases o't said pll KUl' n (flisl'anee and then turn laterally lirutward to the hark or the top-eonneeti heinl ll) thereof, so as to he wedge-sh it depths of whi in the direction of the ngthe upper terminals oi said tongueshaped projections lornnng well-defined shoulders 11 opposite to each other; just heloiv the bond 10, it being ntilted that said tongues are in the paths of the grooves T of the pin point portion 2, so that in the use of the safety pin when said pin point is inserted in the shield or guard S the grooves 7 of said point portion receive the lower ends or points of the ing the aeeidentai displaronient thereof,

until win-n the safety pin is to he opened, the pin point portion is moved in a direction tor; rd '1 nirance, when said portion iperior :t'oree exerted therepresses the shoulders 11 groin. 7 on the tongue-shaped projoctions 9 i ls again spfeading-apart the side plates ot the shield or guard and allowing lhe walls of the grooves 7 to ride down tongue-shaped projections until the latte: ire eloarml the side plates then re- Slll'lllllgjf th 1' normal condition and the pin lv rtion on'nirg'ing' from the shield 01' n;r-: i :rehy the device is opened and may he .7 ,onnertod from the article or ai'ni(iil1 to which it has been applied. lr'hun the pin is in looked position, the alnuzlders .l'l afi'ord longl-henial supports for the same, and so resist in any direction the nuloehing ol. the point portion. until. proporlv overcome in the manner stated, or

should it have heen hentv of the the same phicing the Walls ll vinn' thus (inscribed my invention w! at V olann as new and desire to secure by 5 rs .tatent, 151

L in a safety pin, a pin proper having in the side of its point portion a'groove, and. a pin point shield embodying two side plates and a hack joining the same and hav ing: on a side plate a tongue-shaped internal projection which flares from the base oil? said plate to the back of the shield'and in the side thereof, and a shield for the in point comprising two side plates an a back joining the same and having on aside plate a tongue-shaped internal rojection which is adapted to receive free y said groove, said projection being wedge shaped from the base of said plate toward the back of the shield, and forming with said wall adjacent to said back an inwardly projecting shoulder which extends to the side of said back andon which the underside of said pin point portion is adapted to be seated and locked.

3. In a safety pin a pin proper having its point portion provided with recesses in the side at opposite places thereof, and a shield for the pin point comprising two side plates and a back joining the same and 'havin on its side plates inturned tongueshaped internal projections which flare from the base of said plates toward the hack of 5 the. shield and are wedge shaped tmvarrll .its point each other "had shoulders at the inner terrninals ofsaid tongue-shaped internal progections, said shoulders extending laterally outwardly from said inner terminals to 4. In a safety pin, a pin proper having op osite sides thereof and a shield having s1 -plates and a bendand tongue-shaped projections on' said plates, said projections being indented and extending inportion provided with grooves in v wardly toward each other from the bases of said plates to the bend thereof, the upper terminals of said tongues forming shoulders disposed opposite each other,and extending laterally outwardly from 'said terminals to the sides of the bend of the shield and adapted to engage the walls of said grooves and adapted to support and lock the point portion of the pin.

To theabove I have signed my name.

GENEVIEVE HOUGHTQY.

Witnessesr I i SAMUEL STERNBERGER, Lroms Hooorrron. 

